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Amen sister. I don't know how many times I have sat across the table in a meeting with clients and have been asked "how many times do you put up a blog in a week". It always makes me have that deer in the headlights looks for a second. I have to sort the verbs and nouns too much.
A blog is a blog is a blog. Unless it is a post :-).
it's quite fun to see that french speaking don't make the same mistake. Or, to be more precise, I never heard that mistake in french, even with non-blogging people.
but the right word to say "a post" is sometimes not that clear (une "entrée" ? un "article" ? )
Well excuse me for making a freaking typo. What an ass. You could have dropped me a note letting me know.
Have a nice life.
LewisC
"Blog", "Post": is it really so important?
Just enter new content!
Semantic Shift Happens :D
Semantic shifts happen because things move on. So what do we call the blogs on a blog, when there are several contributors? The Huffington Post is a blog - with blogs. Hmmm. GenevaLunch is a blog - with blogs. We can't label them posts: doesn't make sense. One person writes about wine, another about food, someone else about living a greener life in Geneva. What do we put on the menu when we need a catch-all label for them?
Blogs were once just blogs, and most still are, but the technology can be stretched further and when it gets stretched, so does the language.
This is not a semantic shift, for me, but a mistake. You don't call a magazine article a "magazine", so there is no reason to call a blog post a "blog".
A blog can be composed of sub-blogs, when the master blog is a collection/aggregation of individual author blogs. This changes nothing to the fact that the atomic unit composing blogs ("an entry") is a post.
Should we tell Tim that he made it wrong too?
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215
Definitions, shmefinitions :)
Look: every once in a while someone comes to me and says 'I read your blog'. I don't have a blog, I've got a web site.
For me 'blog' is a synonym for 'disposable in the long term'. So half my things are disposable, and in the short term to boot, but half of them I will re-read and want to write them 'out of actuality' (for lack of a better french-turned-to-english notion).
I tend to tell people it's not a blog but a website, and when a professional blogger like you says I've got a blog, I can't complain. After all, yes, it's also a blog, kind of.
Long-winded as I am today, I'd say it's a classical case of synecdoche-in-the-making. Look, do you say "this is my mobile phone number", or do you say "this is my mobile"?
Anyway. We'll see.